Datasheet XStream Technical Data Sheet 12-6-12 Copy

8/10/2019 Datasheet XStream Technical Data Sheet 12-6-12 Copy

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The Enterprise-Class CloudEnterprises require a different type of cloud. Until recently,the majority of clouds have been “best-effort” public clouds,consisting of basic virtualization, a toolkit, a set of APIs and Web

access. Businesses have used these public clouds for testing anddevelopment and for web-scale applications. But enterprises alsoneed to bring the economic and business benets of cloud to theirentire portfolio of enterprise applications—including mission-criticallegacy applications and web-scale applications. These enterprise-class clouds need to be secure, dynamic, multi-tenant efcient,simple to manage, compliant with auditing and regulatory policiesand include backup/disaster recovery. To be able to supportmission-critical applications in the cloud, enterprises requireguaranteed application performance.

Increasingly enterprises wish to seamlessly combine existing ITwith private clouds and benet from public/virtual private clouds,as a result they are increasingly looking for a hybrid solution.Virtustream’s xStream cloud solution meets enterprise-class cloudrequirements and offers a private, public and hybrid solution whileenabling more savings, exibility and business benets than anyother alternative. Virtustream delivers the enterprise class cloudfor mission-critical applications, delivering the cloud value thatpublic cloud vendors have pioneered for test/dev and web-scaleapplications.



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The Benets• Optimal hybrid cloud solution: private,

virtual private and/or public• Supports both legacy and web-scale

applications• Enterprise-grade security and

compliance• Performance SLAs for mission-critical

applications• Multi-tenant economic benets of

cloud• Consumption-based pricing: pay only

for what’s actually used• Operational simplicity by pooling

resources and applying policies tothose pools

• Supports leading hypervisors and runson the majority of enterprise hardware

• Role-based management portal forCxOs, CIO, IT ops, business leaders

and users• Optional managed services for secure

cloud bursting, backup and disasterrecovery

• Backed by comprehensive cloudprofessional services: strategy,migration, setup and management

xStream: Running the Enterprise-Class CloudxStream is enterprise-class cloud software for private, virtualprivate, public and hybrid clouds—available as software, as anappliance or as a managed cloud service. xStream is powered byVirtustream µVM™ technology, which delivers enterprise securityand compliance, multi-tenant efciency, consumption-based pricingand performance SLAs for both legacy and web-scale applications.xStream works with existing enterprise hardware and virtualizationto deliver enterprise-class clouds.

xStream is the rst true enterprise hybrid cloud solution—secureand compliant whether private or public. Enterprises need to runa complex IT environment that supports multiple applications,

with a broad mix of hardware and software. xStream provides ahybrid cloud solution—private, public or mixed—which enablesthe enterprise to securely benet from the cloud with multi-tenantefciency, dynamic scale and on-demand delivery. Enterprisescan now operate secure, compliant private clouds on-site andcombine them with virtual private/public clouds in a hybrid solutionfor both legacy and web-scale applications. Applications runningon an xStream cloud are supported by commercial applicationperformance SLAs and consumption-based pricing, enablingmission-critical applications like ERP, CRM, databases, mail, webapps and thousands more to be moved to the cloud and outperformtraditional operations. Your cloud solution is tailored with policiesto run your applications in the conguration that ts your business.You can simply operate your own private cloud, you can combineit with virtual private/public clouds or you can use managedcloud services in any combination for the entire IT landscape,while delivering up to 25% more efficiency added to existingvirtualization.

The cloud brings signicant benets to IT: making it moredynamic and allowing it to operate on-demand and at multi-tenanteconomies of scale. Cloud resources are securely shared—availabledynamically and on-demand. But without a solution like xStream,shared resources in private and public clouds cannot deliverreliable application performance. xStream was built from the groundup to be enterprise-class, using Virtustream μVM™ technology to

achieve the reliability and assured high performance of a dedicatedprivate cloud combined with the exibili ty, scalability and economicbenets of the public multi-tenant cloud. xStream enables you torun the most complex, mission-critical legacy applications from SAP,Oracle, Microsoft and thousands more with full cloud benets, butwithout rewriting your applications.



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The μVM™ Unit of Measure• Compute: 200 MHz of CPU• Memory: 768 MB• Storage: 40 Input/output operations

per second (IOPS)• Network: 2 Mbps

xStream with Virtustream µVM™ Technology

Virtustream’s μVM™ is a fundamental cloud unit of measurecomprised of compute, memory, network and storage. Using aμVM™ as an analytical building block, the optimal congurationof cloud resources needed to support any application (legacy orweb-scale) can be identied and delivered.• Delivers economic benets of the cloud along with the reliability

of dedicated resources.• Dynamically tailors resources to meet application needs. Each

application is assessed for resource needs and the optimal setof µVMs is combined to deliver mission-critical performance, allbacked by an SLA. As applications execute, xStream ensuresthat each application has the resources it needs.

• Offers a true consumption-based pricing model in whichcustomers pay only for what they actually use (in 5-minuteincrements), not for compute, memory, storage or networkcapacity that is not used (virtual machines are typically idle30% of the time).

• Works with a heterogeneous collection of existing hardwareand software so that companies can use existing hypervisors,compute, storage and networking resources and still benetfrom an enterprise cloud.

• Designed for a wide range of enterprise applications—workingwith all leading hypervisors: VMware ESX, IBM PowerVM, Xen,KVM hypervisors and more). xStream also supports a mixedenvironment, letting the enterprise mix and match hypervisorsfor exible cost/licensing options by application.

• Integrates backup, data replication and disaster recovery asselected by the enterprise.

• Architected to the highest security and compliance standardsand can signicantly contribute and be an enabler in achievingand maintaining SSAE16, ISAE3402, PCI-DSS 2.0, FISMA,IS0 27001-2005, ISO 9001-2008, HIPAA/HITEC and othercertications and compliance frameworks in a customer's ownenvironment, when coupled with appropriate operational andmanagement controls.

• Built to be managed from a single pane of glass. xStream-basedclouds running in multiple locations (private, virtual privateand public) can all be monitored and managed from a singleconsole that provides a unied view.



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VMs Assigned to VM™ Pool

VMs Share Overhead

VM Sized for PeaksNext Size Up Selected

Allocation MethodVM-Based

Consumption MethodMicro VM ( VM™)-Based

Space NeededPay for Full VM

Only Pay forWhat You Use

Hypervisor Support

The rst step to the cloud is virtualization,and that means hypervisors. xStreamsupports:• VMware ESXi• IBM PowerVM (supporting the IBM

pSeries chip)• KVM• Open-Source Xen• And others to follow

Assuring Application PerformancexStream is designed to deliver and assure application performancein the cloud. xStream takes a policy-based approach to servicequality and offers application performance SLAs across an entireresource pool—compute, memory, network and storage. For therst time, enterprises can be assured that application performancein the cloud meets or exceeds dedicated hardware performance—enabling mission-critical applications to be moved to the cloud,whether legacy or web-scale. Hybrid cloud connections includingthe communication, transfer of data and migration of workloadsbetween private, virtual private and public clouds is automated,allowing backup and disaster recovery, cloud-bursting and test/ development to be delivered primarily by setting policies versusmanual conguration.

Policies that reect your business priorities help to preventapplications from contending for resources. If sub-second responsetime is the critical performance factor of an application, resourcepools can be designed to help assure that performance level.

xStream Components for Application Performance SLAs:• Integrated monitoring and alerts —hypervisor and application.

Monitors the four μVM™ constituents while supportingintegration with third-party monitoring tools such as Nimsoft andNagios to deliver app-level metrics.

• IOPS and storage performance. Synchronizes and maximizesexpected application and storage performance using a uniqueoptimization technique.

• Bursting. Uses app-specic conguration to burst to availablecapacity. Bursting can involve adding memory, restartinginstances in different locations or adding application instances.



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• API capabilities. Supports Amazon EC2 compliant APIs, a verycommon platform for the public cloud. Customers using theAPIs get benets of controllability and congurability withouthaving to recode their applications specically for Virtustream.APIs are extended for SLAs and performance.

Supporting Legacy ApplicationsMany enterprises have encountered obstacles migrating legacyapplications to the cloud. Today’s best-efforts public clouds areonly designed for test/dev and web-scale applications—withno performance guarantees. xStream removes those obstacles.xStream enables the most complex, mission-critical legacyapplications to run in the cloud. Whether the application is fromSAP, Oracle, Microsoft or thousands of others, Virtustream µVM™technology allows it to be brought into the cloud and operate

faster, cheaper and backed by performance SLAs. For example,Virtustream is an SAP-certied solution provider, so enterprisescan move applications such as SAP ERP into the cloud. We haveover 50 production SAP enterprise instances running on xStream.We even support automated migration of applications written formainframes in languages such as COBOL and Fortran, while alsoproviding an ideal environment for web-scale applications.

Security and CompliancexStream offers enterprise-grade security and compliance withautomatic management, using resource and security policiesestablished by IT, enabling users and applications to securely useboth private and virtual private clouds. Features include:• Two-factor authentication using soft tokens from SafeNet. A one-time

password is generated, then destroyed once the transaction iscomplete.

• Password-based authentication in Microsoft Active Directory.• Hardware-based authentication. When we move a workload to a

new physical host, we don’t take any chances. We use TrustedExecution Technology (TXT) from Intel. TXT veries the integrityof the hypervisor or operating system running on the chip ormotherboard, ensuring that the software running on a givenhost has not been compromised.

• Physical and logical separation. The customer chooses the

acceptable level of multi-tenancy. Whether it’s on-premise, in aprivate cloud or in a shared environment, on shared or separatestorage, we can support your business’s needs.

Single Pane of GlassxStream is built to be managed from asingle pane of glass. Regardless of whereyour physical and virtual machines arehoused (private cloud, virtual private cloudor public cloud), you’ll be able to see all ofthem through a single management portal.xStream-based clouds running in multiplelocations (private, virtual private andpublic, in multiple geographies) can allbe monitored and managed from a singleconsole that provides a unied view.

Role-Based Management

Just as important as which applicationsshould go in the cloud is the question ofwho is allowed to access or change theapplications. The xStream portal providesself-service and role-based management,displaying information appropriate for aCXO, CIO, IT operator, business leader orend-user, for example.



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• Continuous threat management. All of our systems log events andnotications related to intrusion detection and malware, whichare aggregated by a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

engine for operations (customer or xStream ops) to resolve.• Continuous event monitoring and audit trail support. The GRC

engine can receive events, compare them to the customer’scompliance requirements and assess the level of complianceacross a number of standards, including NIST 800/FISMA/G-Cloud (government), HIPAA (healthcare), PCI (ecommerce),DIACAP (defense), ICD 503 (intelligence), and industry (SSAE16, ISO 27001, SAS 70 and more). xStream can also feed intoa customer’s existing GRC engine.

• Inside the Virtustream cloud, within our data centers, there areadditional safeguards at the rewall and core switching level.We support:

- Hypervisor-based intrusion detection and intrusionprevention

- Hardware-based intrusion detection- Firewalls between customers- Multiple layers in a customer deployment, including Internet

zone, DMZ, and enterprise-grade zone: This featurespecically supports back-ofce trafc that is not exposed tothe public Internet

Disaster Recovery and BackupxStream can support enterprise-class backup and replication.Give us the recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPOsand RTOs) and the size of the data to be carried between sites,and we can give you a performance guarantee. SLAs are primarilyonly limited by bandwidth constraints and the customer’s choiceof storage-agnostic replication or storage vendor’s replicationtechnology.

Our combination of disaster recovery and backup options isunparalleled. A Fortune 100 company was able to conduct a 1-hourfailover of its SAP system using xStream, when competitors couldoffer recovery times no faster than 2.5 days. xStream backup istypically capable of RPOs of lower than 5 minutes and RTOs of lessthan one hour.

Additionally, xStream supports VM, cluster and data centerfailover. If a virtual machine or set of machines within a pool fails,recovery will take place on another node within that cluster. If thecluster fails, it can be recovered at a remote site. In other words, acatastrophic data center failure would still be recoverable.



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Approval Workow ManagementEnd users can request all of the components that will comprise theircloud environments with an xStream catalog request, then send thepackage of components through an internal workow, which can berouted to the responsible parties for each budget line item, ensuringall components are approved for the cloud before launch.

Operational SimplicityxStream affords customers the capability to use policies to manageall µVMs in a pool. These policies could include monitoring,patching and backup and disaster recovery. When customers denea data-protection or retention policy for a pool, then instruct eachvirtual machine or application within that pool to adopt or conformto that policy, overhead is reduced because the administrator neednot manage each VM individually; VMs are managed in concertaccording to the policies set for their particular pool.

Cloud Professional ServicesMoving critical applications to the cloud is a difcult and complexdecision. Our Cloud Professional Services team can help youdetermine how to get the optimal tradeoff between pricing andperformance and between virtualization and the cloud. The CloudProfessional Services team helps customers with vendor agnosticadvice to set strategy and assess, design, migrate, manage andoperate clouds.

The Cloud Professional Services team also uses the Advisor toolfor rst-time cloud customers. Advisor can collect performanceinformation from existing environments so that only the requiredcloud resources are provisioned when customers migrate to thecloud. Customers select the desired service level for each application,then provision and migrate those applications onto xStream’sresource pools.

Remote Infrastructure ManagementIf required by customers, Virtustream also offers a cloud monitoringand management service. In an xStream cloud (private cloud,virtual private, public or hybrid), customers can use our CloudCover group for monitoring and managing systems full-time oroutside normal business hours.



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Delivery Models

xStream is available in three editions:• Private Cloud Edition for enterprise

customers• Virtual Private Cloud, managed cloud

services for enterprises• Public Cloud Edition for service

provider and government customers

xStream is available in multiple deliverymodes to suit a wide variety of businessneeds:• For enterprise private clouds, xStream

can be installed in your environmentas software or as an appliance.

• For service providers and governmentcustomers, xStream is available assoftware, an appliance or a managedservice for inclusion in an existingpublic cloud

• xStream is also available as a setof managed services for enterprisecustomers (from Virtustream or otherservice provider clouds)

Run a Private Cloud(at your site)

Virtual Private CloudService(in the Virtustream Cloud)

EnterprisePublic Cloud

(in SP/Government Cloud)

HybridHybrid

Hybrid

About VirtustreamVirtustream is the leading enterprise cloud solution provider.xStream is Virtustream’s enterprise-class cloud solution, allowingboth legacy and web-scale mission-critical applications to run in thecloud—whether private, virtual private, public or hybrid.

xStream uses patented Virtustream µVM™ technology tosecurely enable enterprise hybrid clouds on existing hardwareand virtualization, backed by application SLAs, consumption-based pricing and multi-tenant efciency. xStream is available assoftware, as an appliance, or as a managed service and backed bycomprehensive cloud professional services.

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Datasheet XStream Technical Data Sheet 12-6-12 Copy